Trailers of the Week: On the Rocks, Time, Utopia, and More – Rolling Stone

All In: The Fight for Democracy

In the new documentary, Stacey Abrams examines rampant voter suppression across the United States. Referring to voter suppression as the new Jim Crowe 2.0, the documentary focuses on Abrams 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, where voters were faced with five-hour lines, mismanagement, and gerrymandering. Abrams says in a clip, Thousands of people were told, No, and didnt have the authority to demand better. Now, the people are making demands. (September 18th)

Blackbird

Susan Sarandons character a family matriarch asks her family to behave as normally as they possibly can. Even in good times, that can be an impossible request to adhere to. But the occasion for which they are all gathered makes it even more difficult to do so. After battling ALS, Sandersons character has decided to end her life. The date has been set, and though shes made her peace with it, the rest of the family is still working on it. (September 18th)

Coastal Elites

This new HBO film is the first of its kind a socially distanced satire. Sarah Paulson,Bette Midler,Issa Rae,Kaitlyn Dever,andDan Levy all-star as the so-called coastal elites, as they go through living in isolation in either Los Angeles or New York City. Filmed remotely, the characters divulge their lives in largely confessional styled-shots. As Paulsons character suggests, Take a deep healing breath and imagine that youre not even on Twitter or Facebook or Xanax. (September 12th)

Death on the Nile

Detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) returns this time, to investigate a murder thats taken place during a picture-perfect Egyptian steam-boat vacation. I ask you, he says in a voiceover, have you ever loved so much, been so possessed by jealousy, that you might kill? Based on the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, the film is Branaghs follow up to Murder on the Orient Express.(October 23rd)

On the Rocks

For her latest feature, director Sofia Coppola focuses on Laura (Rashida Jones), who thinks her marriage is in a rut. Her husbands job is demanding more trips away, and shes starting to feel like a living daily planner. It isnt until her father Felix (Bill Murray) comes back to town that she starts to suspect the worst from her husband. After all, over drinks her father tells her that infidelity is part of a mans very nature: Males are forced to fight, to dominate and to impregnate the female. Felix, a womanizer himself, feels sure that he knows all the tricks Lauras husband could be pulling. Together, they set out to catch him in the act. (October)

Time

Twenty years into her husbands six-decade-long prison sentence, Fox Rich relentlessly campaigns for his release. The mother, entrepreneur, and abolitionists ongoing video diaries craft a portrait of perseverance and fierce love as she tries to keep her family intact while having to navigate through the United States prison industrial-complex system. (October 23rd)

Utopia

Set to R.E.M.s Its the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), a group of comic book fans realize that the plots theyve read over and over are actually coming true in the real world. Dismissed as fanatic fans, their warnings are mocked. However, as a deadly pandemic takes hold, they mobilize to take action. Expect bio-warfare, a seemingly sinister corporation, and a band of unlikely heroes. (September 25th)

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